Improved butter-pail



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIGE.

HENRY P. YVESTCOTT, OF SENECA FALLS, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO SENECA FALLS CHURN MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

IM PROVED BUTTER-PAIL.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 82,048, dated September 8, 1868.

To all 'whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY P. WEsTcoTT, of the village of Seneca Falls, county of Seneca, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Butter-Fails; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and Iigures marked thereon, making a part of this specification.

Figure l is a perspective view of the butterpail complete; Fig. 2, of the outside of the front ear; Fig. 3, of the outside of the back ear; Fig. 4, of part of the inside of the back ear; Fig. 5, of part of the inside of the front ear; Fig. 6, of the hinged hasp; and Fig. 7, of the spring-key used to secure the hasp to the staple which is .on the face, and a part of the front ear.

My improved butter-pail is constructed as follows, viz: The body of the pail is made of staves, and hooped in the usual manner, or of other suitable material. The back ear C on pail and section, 'in Figs. 3 and 4, is made of malleable or wrought iron or other suitable metal, with side and top inward projections or iianges to receive that part of the cover iitted to it, with the batting D securely attached thereto, the object desired to be attained from the flanges or projections being to rmly secure that side of the cover fitted to them, and prevent either a side or upward movement of the cover. The front ear B on pail and section, and Figs. 2 and 5, is also made of malleable or wrought iron or other suitable metal, with side inward projections or flanges to receive that part of the cover fitted to it, with .the batting E securely attached thereto, the object desired to be attained from the flanges or projections being to rmly secure that side of the cover fitted to them, and prevent a side movement of the cover. It also has an open space on the top, Fig. 5, to receive the hasp. Fig. 6 also represents a projection or staple on the front face, over which the hasp shuts with a suitable slot. The hasp used is with an ordinary hinge-joint, with perforations on the one end, by means of which it is securely attached with screws or rivets to the cover, while through the outer end is cut asuitable slot to receive the staple or projection on the face of the front ear. This hasp may be made of malleable or wrought iron or other suitablemetal.

The spring-key, Fig. 7, used is in the form of the drawing, made of iron or steel or other suitable metal, and which, when inserted through a small perforation in the staple or projection on the face of the front ear and over the hasp, ei'ectually secures the hasp to its place.

To enable others skilled in the art to manufacture my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction as follows:

I construct my pail in any of the known forms, either with or without the use of machinery'. I then securely attach the metal ears, as hereinbefore described, to the pail, by means of three (more or less) screws or galvanized iron or other metal rivets. I then iit the cover, which I have already strengthened by means of a batting nailed and screwed across the top, so that it will, iirst, nicely iit into the opening made by the side and top projections or flanges on the back ear; second, between the side projections or flanges on the front ear. I then iit the iron or otherv metal hinged hasp to the cover, and through the opening on the top of the front ear, over the staple, on the face of the same. I then, through a suitable perforation through the staple, insert the spring-key, as above described, which eii'ectually prevents the loosening, by accident, of the hinged hasp from the staple, and thus perfectly secures the cover to its proper place.

I do not claim the whole of the butter-pail described as my invention; but

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The metallic ear C, socketed, as described, to contain the bar E, in combination with the said bar and ear B, with inward projections, as described.

HENRY P. WESTCOTT.

Witn esses GABY SILsBY, E. STANLEY RACE. 

